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   vern | Mar 09, 2005 07:54am | #1

   yes our friend the late Jon Arno covered this in FWW about six months ago I suggest looking it up --my own experience has been disturbing-- I make furniture and have always been able to exclude sap cherry from what I was working on. But if you buy rough cut and it has been steamed and you prep it like you always do . And you pick your cuts from what appears to be good heart cherry (dark ) and you use it ..But lo and behold a month or so later you look at your work and wonder how that sap wood got in there.. well it did not look like that when you put it there .. you got hood winked -- so I will not buy steamed cherry -- walnut --that doesn't darken and stays about the same -- they've been steaming wal for years and I'll buy it and use it , this is just my opinion

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   georgek | Mar 09, 2005 05:41pm | #2

   Like vern replied, I would avoid steamed cherry and walnut, the sapwood sometimes does return to its natural state. We are lucky enough that Owl Hardwood seperates steamed cherry and walnut from regular kiln dried stock. So you have a choise.

   P.S...the price difference is incredible!